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“Harris tweeted about the fifth anniversary of the “murder” of Michael Brown. Within minutes, Warren followed, saying “Brown was murdered by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.” Both appear to be echoing a narrative that emerged shortly after Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson shot...

- The Washington Post The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos. Remember this the next time you consider purchasing from Amazon.com. This is the same paper that published articles calling for Nate Parker's career to be crushed at the very same time that they published articles telling Black...

The man from Jet who battled Jim Crow At the Till murder trial, Simeon Booker (foreground) and fellow black journalists were segregated from the regular reporter pool and forced to work at a small card table in the back of the courtroom Madison Darbyshire DECEMBER 15, 2017 Before Barack...

Morgan State University in Baltimore is a historically black college and the largest such school in Maryland. A federal judge this week ordered Maryland to remedy the lack of investment in the state’s historically black colleges and universities, in an effort to resolve a decade-old lawsuit...

Gold Star mothers and widows visiting the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris in 1930. (Courtesy National Archives via Journal of American History) For 11 years, Bessie Strawther longed for a chance to visit her son’s grave. Pvt. Henry Strawther, a black American soldier in a segregated...

Left-wing media is crucial to the success of left-wing ideas… by NATHAN J. ROBINSON It’s tempting, when you write about politics, to think that you are useless. And if the received view of political media is correct, you probably are: people choose the news sources that they agree with, thus...

Fifteen percent of white households are worth more than $1 million, double the percentage in 1992. (iStock) The share of white millionaires in the United States has doubled in the past quarter-century, with 1 in 7 white families now worth more than $1 million, according to new Federal Reserve...

By David A. Ansell David A. Ansell is a professor of internal medicine, senior vice president for community health equity at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, a member of Physicians for a National Health Program, and author of “The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills.” Sarai was 25 years...

African Americans were worse off financially in 2016 than they were in 2000. The median income for an African American household was $39,490 last year, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released this week. It was $41,363 in 2000. (Both figures are in 2016 dollars, so they have been adjusted...